ABSTRACT
The insurers were successful in refusing to comply with the Turkish requests to hand over the names of their clients; they also took high-level political actions to hold Turkey directly responsible for the Armenian Genocide. In pursuit of this offensive initiative, both New York Life and Union-Vie, independently, held Turkey directly responsible for the "losses" they had incurred by the few payments already made to the victims' heirs. The enclosure of New York Life's letter, a translated copy of Union-Vie's claim of April 11, 1922 with the French Foreign Ministry, is a much stronger accusation of the Turkish government in the planning and the execution of the genocide. Based on documentary evidence authenticated by competent Turkish ministerial officials, the Turkish tribunals found the Ittihadist leaders guilty of mass murders, charged them with conspiracy to commit large-scale premeditated killings, and convicted all three Ittihadist leaders to death in absentia.
